by ray | Aug 7, 2015 | Linux / Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
You might not be ready to accept Linux as your desktop yet, but you can still use it to save your Windows PC—whether you need to reset passwords, recover deleted files, or scan for viruses, here’s how to do it. What we’ll do today is walk you through some of the most...
by ray | Aug 1, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
Windows 10 is here! Well, it’s here for a lot of people, but many of us still cannot download it until Microsoft says it’s OK (unless you want to do it manually). You see, Microsoft plans to release Windows 10 in waves. That means even if your computer is...
by ray | Aug 1, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
Some apps are essential, and you use them every day. Everyone knows their names: Firefox, VLC, 7-Zip, and so on. However, there’s another class of app that gets less attention: the apps that are insanely useful to have in your back pocket on the rare occasions...
by ray | Jul 30, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
Last night, as promised, I installed Windows 10 on my own personal laptop. I left everything to chance. I didn’t back up my data. Hell, I set my Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on the floor of a pizza parlor in San Francisco—dongle and all—and let it install totally unattended....
by ray | Jul 21, 2015 | DNS
IP Addresses and the Domain Name System (DNS) are two core elements of Internet infrastructure that have been working together for a long time – the DNS typically being referred to as the “telephone book of the Internet” – to map human readable domain names to IP...
